Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 49

Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

Americana

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 945		Assortment of Pre-owned Camera Equipment. 1) Hasselblad, Model 500C Camera with Hasselblad 60/100/250 telephoto lens; 2) Carl Zeiss distagon 1:4 15 mm lens; 3) Carl Zeiss synchro compur 250 mm. (40-250) telephoto lens; 4) Carl Zeiss synchro compur 50 mm. lens; 5) Teffin 67 mm. wide angle hood; 6) Hasselblad 42294 meter prism finder PME3; 7) Vivatar auto thyristor flash; 8) two Argus 50 mm. cameras with case circa late 1940's - 50's; 9) Olympus quickmatic 36 mm. camera circa 1950's; and 10) Hasselblad slide projector with rotary slide magazines. Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,500. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 946		Fisher, George. Young Man's American Instructor Book. Published in Philadelphia; printed and sold by John Bioren, 1812, 7¼ x 4½ in., 300pp. Professionally re-bound in marble board paper; leather spine with gold print title. Contains instructions for reading, writing, arithmetic, merchants' accounts, the art of drawing, etc. and includes a fold-out chart of geometric diagrams. Engraved frontispiece and several copper engravings. Small repair of marble front cover design and some light tone spotting internally. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 947		1929 Cunard Line Travel Display Poster. This poster came out the night before the Great Depression. Framed to 31½ x 21½ in. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 948		Album of Thirty Cabinet Card Photographs of Presidents, Actors, Poets & Others. Album with cabinet photos of a variety of famous 19th century figures. They include Presidents: Lincoln, Taft, and Arthur; poets: Walt Whitman and Longfellow; lawyers: Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan; actors: Edwin Booth, Ellen Terry, and Julia Marlow; politicians: James G. Blaine, Chauncey De Pew, and British prime minister W.E. Gladstone. Also, inventor Thomas A. Edison, reformer Henry Ward Beecher, author Washington Irving, and a Ferris Wheel at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Other photos are unidentified but are certainly of prominent figures of the time. Most of the photographer's imprints are not visible, but those that are include: Pach Bros., Sarony, Pell, Bell, Sherman & McHugh, Baker, and Beck. The exterior of this album is worn and some of the photo holders pages have tears while the actual photographs are overall fine. Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 949		c. 1850 Face Design Original Artwork for Playing Cards. Thirteen original pen and ink drawings for face designs of playing cards and one drawing of what may have been intended for the back of these cards, to be printed by Jose Bau, Valencia, Spain. Includes the 2, 3 and 10 of Coins, and the 1, 3, 10, 11 and 12 of Cups, all about 4 x 2¾ in. With five smaller drawings, some with penciled notations, of Coin and Cup designs. Most have pinholes in the corners, perhaps to hold the paper in place while the artist worked. The designs in these drawings are similar to a set printed by Jose Bau about 1850 and illustrated in the Fournier Museum catalog, Volume 1, Spain #250. Age toned, sometimes heavily, around the edges, otherwise near fine. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 950		c. 1880 Original Face Design Artwork for Playing Cards. Eight hand-drawn, pen and ink designs for the faces of a set of playing cards, plus another drawing for the back of the cards, all in 4 x 2¼ in. format. The designs are for the Ace, Jack, Knight and King of Swords and the same values for Clubs, though in this case the club is the wooden type. Each of these face cards is enclosed in a box of precisely ruled lines and appear to be finished. The design for the back, however, was left unfinished, but does include the name of the intended printer for this deck, "Sebastian Comas y Ricart." No place is given, but we know that this firm operated in Barcelona, Spain as early as 1848 and as late as 1926. These designs appear to be the same as those used on a set cataloged in the Fournier Museum catalog, Volume 2, Spain #474, which Fournier dates to the end of the 1800's. Fine; evenly age toned, and tipped to a sheet of heavy paper. (9 items on 1 card). Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 951		Impressive Tintype Image of Two Men and Their Horses. 5 x 7 in., featuring two horses in a field, one pulling a man in a carriage, the other being held by a standing man. Plank fencing appears in the background, with trees and outbuildings farther back. The image is slightly blurred at the edges but crisp in the center, except for the man in the carriage, who was apparently in motion as the picture was being taken. Some slight metal bends but the overall condition is good and the image is strong. Framed in a gilt and black painted wooden frame, with gilt brass, stamped ornamentations at the four corners. Overall size 7 x 9 in. Estimated Value $200 - 400. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 952		Original 1886 Statue of Liberty Silk Souvenir Ribbon. Printed white silk ribbon printed on both sides, 2¾ x 6 in., issued around the time of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty on 28 Oct. 1886. Printed copyright date of 1886; printed on the reverse side with a calendar for the year 1887. On that same side is printed an eight line poem by John Greenleaf Whittier titled, "The Bartholdi Statue". The face side features a view of the Statue and of New York Harbor, with the words "Bartholdi Souvenir". Below this image is a list of specifications giving the size and weight of various parts of the Statue. At the bottom is a portrait of Bartholdi, with his facsimile signature as manufactured by the "Liberty Mfg. Co." of New York. Fine. Estimated Value $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $518
Lot 953		Ornate Masonic Apron with Numerous Masonic Symbols, c. 1840. 15 x 19 in., cream colored silk with printed symbols in blue, red and yellow, surrounded by an extremely ornate, gilt, sequin and tassel fringe. The center part is padded, creating a three dimensional effect. There is minor fraying, a few minor spots and a few small, barely noticeable holes (mostly under the upper fringe), but otherwise in excellent condition, and mounted in a plexiglass case. Besides the usual trowel, compass and square, this apron has the all-seeing eye (as seen on the back of a United States one dollar bill) in red, blue, black and yellow at the top, and in the lower part a scene in the temple, a sword, a beehive, a heart, a ladder to heaven, an urn spouting fire and clouds, two pillars each with a different globe on top, and various other symbols. An apron such as this would have been worn by the Worshipful Master of a Masonic Lodge. This is a wonderful piece of Masonic History. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 954		Rare Early American Full Plate "Fishing" Tintype. C. 1870. A well-dressed man is seated on a small boulder holding his cane fishing pole and its string within his fingers, in a staged mountain stream setting. The photography studio set design has a woodland or mountain stream flowing with an old Spanish mission far in the background. The details are exceptionally sharp and distinct, the tintype being in virtually mint condition. A light rose colored tint has been added to the man's cheek. A watch chain with what appears to possibly be a small gold nugget attached is prominent, near center. Housed within its apparent original mahogany oval mat and frame with some gold colored inner trim (7 x 5 in. oval mat and 13 x 11 in. wooden frame). The finest early "fishing" related tintype image we have ever encountered. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold